What is your name? Spencer Okoroafor
What is your position/work? What do you do? School administrator at Heritage Academy, Abuja.
What is your relationship to Sheila? My trainer and motivator.
Why are you passionate about Christian Education? It is actually going back to the beginning of education.
What is the biggest challenge you see in the education system in Nigeria? Why? Teaching to pass examinations as opposed to teaching the total child. Partly inability to outgrow colonial educational heritage, plus the prevailing humanistic tendencies in ‘secular’ education.
What will it take to bring about transformation? Raising a crop of educational leaders who understand the issues at stake and willing to change the status quo.
What do you see as YOUR role in bringing about that transformation? Making myself available to be part of this vanguard, by being trained and in turn training others.
What have you learned while interacting and “walking with” Sheila? That this work has to be done, no matter the discomfort it entails.
How can I pray specifically for you in your work/ministry? That nothing will distract me and cause me to slack.
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| Initial training with Christian Reformed World Missions |
I have had the privilege of working with Spencer since I started this position in 2008. He tells me that even though he was teaching in a Christian school, he had no idea what Christian education could be until attending a series of trainings led by our organization, Christian Reformed World Missions. He was humbled and challenged and has been a champion of Christian education since that time. He is reliable, committed, and passionate. We have led a number of trainings and planned for conferences together. He was my “boss” as I taught in his school for a few weeks as well!
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| At Spencer's school |
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